Jelly Bean

Despite seeing an earlier timeline that had the T-Mobile HTC One Android 4.3 update arriving mid-week, it looks like users still have a few days of waiting left. As we had been seeing, this latest status update comes by way of President of HTC America Jason Mackenzie. In this case, Mackenzie has begun responding to upset T-Mobile One users on Twitter.

Earlier promises from Samsung had the Android 4.3 update beginning for the Galaxy S4 in October. And well, it looks like they are going to be keeping to that schedule. Samsung has begun rolling out Android 4.3 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S4 (model GT-I9505). Just to clarify, the I9505 is the international model. Or in other words, those with a carrier branded Galaxy S4 likely still have some time to wait.

The Android 4.3 HTC One update has been rolling out for those in the US recently. The update has already arrived for those carrying an AT&T branded handset and was later confirmed for those with C Spire. We are still waiting on an official word for Verizon, however it looks like the update is just about ready to arrive for those with T-Mobile.

C Spire HTC One users have an update on the way. Coming by way of the HTC website, the Android 4.3 update has been detailed. C Spire users may want to be on the lookout for an update notification and the update will be arriving as version 2.04.563.3. The changelog for this one is short and to the point; Android 4.3 along with some unspecified bug fixes.

We knew it was coming, but now it’s here. AT&T HTC One users, your devices are being upgraded to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. While HTC has been a little later to the game than we thought, they’ve begun rolling the update out to users as we speak.

Last month saw the departure of Donut and Eclair and we are still waiting for Kit Kat to make an appearance, however in the meantime it looks like Jelly Bean is gaining some ground. Coming by way of the most recent Android distribution report, Jelly Bean has moved up to 48.6 percent. This was up from the September report, which had Jelly Bean sitting with a combined total of 45.1 percent.

The HTC One Android 4.3 rollout began earlier in the week with reports of the update already arriving for those in Taiwan. The same day the update began, Jason Mackenzie had taken to Twitter with news about how that same 4.3 update would be heading to the Developer Edition model of the One. Well, that update arrived yesterday and in fact, HTC has gone a step further and also released the files on the Developer Center website.

Android software updates are always a hot topic. Mainly because some manufacturers do a much better job than others keeping new, and more importantly, older devices up to date. Samsung has been excellent in the past and HTC is looking to improve in that area, but latest reports are showing Sammy taking their time on the 4.3 Jelly Bean update for the Galaxy S III and Note II.

Google introduced a feature called 'AppOps' along with Android 4.3 and as such, it looks like CyanogenMod has something similar. In terms of Cyanogen, the feature is called Privacy Guard and while this is not yet available for all users, that appears as if that will soon be changing. In short, Cyanogen has updated Privacy Guard and also announced the new features have been merged into the early CM10.2 builds.

Just this morning we reported on some recent comments by HTC talking about the software update to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, and now it appears to already be arriving. In fact an HTC president just said the developer edition One would see the update next week, and now this morning we're seeing reports of the HTC One getting 4.3 in Taiwan.